Because at least some people still care about us seeing a glimpse of the future before the world ends, the AirCar Prototype 1 has officially received a Certificate Of Airworthiness, and the company plans to have production models available next year. But they are going to change the name, right?
The future: it’s almost here. Sure Back To The Future II totally lied to us and I’m still bitter about it, but enough about the angry letters I write to Robert Zemeckis, this is a sizzle reel for the Jetson ONE all-electric personal flying vehicle filmed at a golf course.
This is a sizzle reel (think fajitas at Chili’s) for Hyundai Motor Group’s new Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a flat robotic platform on wheels that uses smart suspension and “eccentric wheel drive” powered by three motors in each wheel to keep its payload stabilized no matter the terrain. Some more
This is the launch trailer for the ~$92,000 Jetson ONE, a personal all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft named for the cartoon family of the future. Now if it just folded up into a briefcase like George’s flying car we’d really be in business. Jetson ONE is an ultralight
Because some people still care about trying to make the 2020’s look like the future 1990’s movies made us believe they would be, Slovakia based flying car company Klein Vision has just successfully completed its first inter-city flight test. Flying the approximately 46 miles from an airport in Nitra to
This is a short video of what appears to be an Omni Hoverboard rider (previously) casually zipping down a street in Los Angeles. Is this legal? Probably not, but since when has that stopped anybody from doing anything in Los Angeles? Also, I like how the poster’s comment on Twitter
Note: Not the whole timeline, keep going to see even deeper into the future. This is a chart created by artist and animator Dan Meth featuring a timeline of futuristic movies. As you can see, we’re right between Blade Runner and Soylent Green. Of course none of this matters because
This is a video demonstration of MIT’s ‘LaserFactory’, a laser cutter that’s been modified into an fabrication platform capable of producing functional devices. In this video, it cuts the pieces necessary to build a drone, then pours silver into the circuit traces, attaches its electronic components, solders the silver in